and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise or household wares through the temple [grounds, using the temple area irreverently as a shortcut].

Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.

and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.

Indeed, if a woman does not keep her head covered, she may as well cut her hair short. But, since to cut her hair short, or shave it off, marks her as one of the shameless women, let her keep her head covered.

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

And again he sent unto them another servant; and they cut the account short with him, by stoning him, and sent him away shamefully treated.

but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short.

For, yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will be here, and will not tarry;

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the land and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve,

And he was desirous to have a sight of Jesus, what sort of person he was; and he could not, because of the crowd, for he was short of stature.

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

And the wine falling short the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

And what shall I more say? The time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barach, and of Samson, and of Jephthah. Also of David and Samuel, and of the prophets,

But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have talk with you face to face. May you have peace. Your friends here send you their love. Give my love to our friends by name.

For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins.

And he said to them, "You yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time." For those [who were] coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat.

so that there is no spiritual gift in which you consciously come short, while you are waiting for the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ,

but since he doesn't have any root in himself, he lasts for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, he immediately falls away.

and they are seven kings; the five have fallen, one is, the other is not yet come (and when he does come, he must remain a short time).

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

And after a short time another person saw him [and] said, "You also are [one] of them!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

I beg you, brothers, to listen patiently to this message, for I have written you only a short letter.

And he said unto them - When I sent you forth, without purse or satchel or sandals, of anything, came ye short? And, they, said - Of nothing!

but since they don't have any roots, they last for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall away.

Am I become vain in boasting? ye have forced me to it: for I ought to have been recommended by you, as I have in nothing fallen short of the very chiefest of the apostles, though in myself I am nothing.

For our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible:

Then Festus replied [that] Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and [he] himself was about to go [there] in a short time.

But Agrippa [said] to Paul, "In a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?"

And Paul [replied], "I pray to God, whether in a short time or in a long time, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today may become such [people] as I also am, except for these bonds!"

But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.

But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, "You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean."

For if indeed I grieved you by my letter, I do not regret [it]. Even if I did regret [it] (I see that that letter grieved you, even though for {a short time}),

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

A short time after this King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

I am writing these [things] to you, hoping to come to you in a short time.

You made him for a short [time] lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor;

but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit [that is, whoever intentionally discredits the Holy Spirit by attributing the authenticating miracles done by Me to Satan], it will not be forgiven him [for him there is no forgiveness].

According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.

And, being present with you, and having come short, I was not burdensome to anyone, - for, my deficiency, the brethren, coming from Macedonia, helped to make up; - and, in everything, without burden unto you, I kept, myself - and will keep!

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, [after you] have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, [and] establish [you].

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

Not that, as to coming short, I am speaking, for, I, have learned, in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be, independent:

I know what it is even to be kept low, and I know what it is to have more than enough, - in every way, and in all things, have I been let into the secret - both to be well fed, and to be hungering, both to have more than enough, and to be coming short:

They began talking to one another about their being short of bread.

And, noticing this, Jesus said to them: "Why are you talking about your being short of bread? Do not you yet see or understand? Are your minds still so slow or comprehension?

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves [the things] which must take place in a short time, and communicated [it] [by] sending [it] through his angel to his slave John,

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until [the number of] their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they [had been] were completed also.

How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

And he said to me, "These words [are] faithful and true, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves [the things] which must take place in a short time."

“A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.”

Some of His disciples said to one another, “What does He mean when He tells us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to My Father’?”

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, so He said to them, “Are you wondering among yourselves about what I meant when I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?

this I have told you now, before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe. my conversation will now be but short with you,

But let, your endurance, have, mature work, that ye may be mature and complete, in nothing, coming short.

But, if any of you is sinning short of wisdom, let him be asking of God, Who giveth unto all freely and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him;

If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,

On noticing this, Jesus said: "Why are you talking among yourselves about your being short of bread, O men of little faith?

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God.

if you will move it then to the tribune in the name of the Sanhedrim, to send him here to-morrow, under colour of examining his affair with more solemnity, we shall take care to dispatch him, and make a short end of his journey."

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead?

To the weak I became [as the] weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means [in any and every way] save some [by leading them to faith in Jesus Christ].

But when we [fall short and] are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined [by undergoing His correction] so that we will not be condemned [to eternal punishment] along with the world.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

If you address as Father, the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in [reverent] fear [of Him] and with profound respect for Him throughout the time of your stay on earth.

Going forward a short distance He threw Himself upon His face and prayed repeatedly that, if it was possible, He might be spared that time of agony;

In short, the one who consents to his daughter's marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

But I suppose that I fall nothing short of the very chief apostles.

So they set out, being accompanied for a short distance by some other members of the Church; and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told the whole story of the conversion of the Gentiles and inspired all the brethren with great joy.

So they hove the lead and found twenty fathoms of water; and after a short time they hove again and found fifteen fathoms.

In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud others who do them.

Perhaps, indeed, lie departed for a short time for this reason, that you might receive him forever;

So, He entered one of the boats that belonged to Simon [i.e., Peter], and asked him to launch out a short distance from shore. Then He sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.